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Sixties folk singer Donovan Leitch has been convicted of a charge of dangerous driving in Skibbereen, County Cork, with the offense taking place on 11 February after he attended a prerecording of the Tommy Tiernan Show. However, Leitch, aged 77, with an address at Castlemagner, Kanturk in County Cork had a charge of failing to provide an intoxilyzer sample to gardaí on the same occasion dismissed by Judge James McNulty at Skibbereen District Court. Judge McNulty said that the accepted the validity of evidence of respiratory consultant Professor Oisin O’Connell. Professor O’Connell, who carried out a series of tests on...

Pediatric surgeon and former cabinet minister Kellie Leitch is gaining support from across her Nation placing her as a surprise frontrunner to lead the opposition Conservative Party. Ms Leitch, like the US president-elect, is railing against immigration and political elites and pushing a hard-right "Canadian values" platform. The 46-year-old has answered rising discontent in Canada over the sluggish economy and the acceptance of 37,000 Syrian refugees. Fresh polls show Leitch is ahead of about a dozen candidates in the Conservative leadership election scheduled to be held on May 27, 2017.